Jesus reveals God’s infinite love

Published
12:00 am CST, Wednesday, December 18, 2013

On Christmas day we celebrate the gift our Creator gave us. The gift was a baby boy born of a Jewish maiden named Miriam from a poor town in Galilee over 2,000 years ago. We still give thanks for this gift, especially on Dec. 25.

The boy grew up and became Jesus Christ. He is the only son of God the Creator, and a messenger of the immense riches of his father’s word. He is one of the best gifts the human family could ever receive.

The creator of the universe desires a loving relationship with human beings, with you and me and everybody else; so he sent his son to warm up the dialogue: “Can we talk?”

Many of us believe Jesus to be the Messiah, the Savior promised in the Jewish books of the Bible, who comes to save sinners, cure the afflicted, and declare a wedding feast, a joyous celebration at the very center of life.

Jesus revealed to us the infinite love of God: Good News! Your Creator loves you greatly, he said, and will live together with us one day on a beautifully renewed planet Earth.

Jesus loved life and he loved dreaming about the coming of his father’s kingdom.

But the religious and political power-brokers of his day did not want another kingdom, none but their own; so they crucified the dreamer.

Even today there are people who cannot accept an imminent reign of justice, peace, love and joy. They seem unable to move beyond the death of their own dreams, beyond how they have been wounded and cheated, beyond all of the resentments that come with aging.

Like the elder brother in the Prodigal Son parable (Luke 15:11), these folks are unhappy that someone less deserving than they get to party and dine on the fatted calf.

If any of us are feeling like this we need to remember that our heavenly Father never lies, and that he means exactly what he whispers into our ear with tender paternal love: